April 11: Kokoro Mapped- Visualizing the Collaborative Reading Log (Padlet)

Small groups will be curating from our Kokoro Padlet and visualizing on a large poster paper - a bit like a sketchnote or a "map" of the novel. This will help you process the novel and allow you to contribute your own insights, as well as learn from your peers' reading responses.

Time Frame:

Your groups will start this April 11 for part of the period, continue April 16, and finish by the end of April 22 if needed.

Step 1: Find a small group of 3-4 (partners would be fine too, but please no more than 4 to a group)

Step 2: Get a large piece of Post-It poster paper (by back table) and some markers/ sharpies. Find a comfy place to be on the floor (in room or hall) OR place desks together.

Step 3: Your group will use our work on Padlet as a resource to create a sort of "visual map" of the novel Kokoro. (it's like a giant one-pager, which you can see many examples of if you search on Google). You can add things or develop things as needed. The things you curate should be meaningful to you. Divide the "hunting and gathering" and designing/drawing among your group members.

Step 4: You may design your visualization any way you like. For example, you might want to divide the story between the Narrator's part of the book and "Sensei's Testament". Or, you might want to go chronologically, as if the story was a board game or a journey. You might want to base the entire design around the main characters. The sky's the limit!

Step 5: Check that you have all the following components in some way, shape or form, but you can add others!

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REQUIRED COMPONENTS:

- Sketch one visual symbol that represents one of the text’s main themes.

- Identify traits of each character (Sensei, Narrator, Sensei's wife/ Ojusan, K, Narrator's father, Narrator's mother, Okusan)

- Illustrate connections between the characters (how are they related? how do they feel about each other? how do they affect the other?)

- An overarching "big" question that this book asks / makes you think about

- sketches representing at least 3 settings in the novel.

- Illustrate a question brought up by one of us in Padlet.

- at least two specific examples of literary devices.

- 1 quotation that you think best sums up this work (of course you may include more than 1 of your favorite quotes, or make a doodle for them)

- 1 or more interesting vocabulary words you learned (illustrating their meaning as well)

- 1 aspect of Japanese culture or the time period (the Meiji Era) you learned from reading this novel

- your names! (with a flourish)